Green
Capacity (Pty) Ltd is an entity created to address Africa’s
shortfalls in human, knowledge, skills, governance, legislative,
technological and financial capacity to engage the green (global)
economy. As a conduit to implement sustainable development, the
green economy brought new levels of willingness to genuinely merge
the environment and economy. At the centre of the green economy is
the need to move away from the carbon intensive paradigm to what is
now popularised as the low carbon economy as well as have governments
adapt to global change, especially climate change, water scarcity and
biodiversity loss. A greener economy invites major investments into
the development of green capacity in the fields of green capacity
auditing, new legislation and institutional frameworks, renewable
energy, energy efficiency, involvement in the carbon market, clean
technologies, awareness raising, creation of green jobs as well as
the protection of life supporting ecosystems like biodiversity and
water. Overall, the green economy acknowledges that this must be done
in order to improve and protect the quality of life mainly through
poverty eradication and the institution of good governance in Africa
and beyond. The green economy also challenges Africa to realise the
emerging opportunities for growth as presented by the need to address
climate change.